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When you were a kid, things that were taken from another person usually felt and tasted a lot better. There are no clear memories coming to my mind right now other than the memories of stealing someone else's girlfriend when I was a kid. But I definitely don't want to make this entry about teenage love, I want to paint a picture of the love we felt when we were younger, and how it was the simple things that we craved and desired. So maybe a little romance from my own past wouldn't hurt! We all remember having that special crush on that special person, and even if we don't remember puppy love, we can feel it in our bodies. That feeling we got, when the person we had a crush on walked into the hallway of our school, and the rush of energy that I would feel when I saw her. The childhood memories I have of my teenage love are innocent to me, and they should be innocent to you too. Sure, I always dreamed I would be like Peter Pan and never grow up, I would stay a child for...

One of the unspoken rules of someone who meditates, it to no talk about it openly because the energy you take to explain yourself, takes away your desire to actually do it. But for intellectual purposes, I want to give a bit of information on my own personal desire to practice it, and how it began. It began during a time in my life when I was alone. I had lost a group of friends that I grew up with, and was really transitioning to adulthood. I was living in a rented room away from my family, and I was trying to find direction in my life. The desire didn't come from studying other religions, it was a natural desire for peace of mind and companionship, that lead me to seek out what other religions taught about a spiritual practice, that I heard about in College and now felt a mysterious connection to. My journey took me to the Trent University Library to seek out a book on meditation, which I found. It wasn't much of an instructional book but it was neat to hold it in my hands,...

I'll have to admit, life can get pretty crazy at times and just when you feel you have a handle on things, it seems like life has given you a whole new set of problems. I can't complain right now, things are relatively calm in my life right now, but that doesn't mean that there is nothing that I worry about. In fact, for me, it is during these times of relative calmness that I find my self worrying the most. My health is fine, I'm eating well but as the years progress I find that I am developing an uncertainty about life that didn't exist in my 20's or 30's. Being a religious man, I find that sometimes even if you are not careful, you can let the mundane things in your everyday life transfer over into your faith. My faith began when I was 21, and I'm finding that as I age and maintain my faith, I am almost trying to play it safe and not take any risks for the sake of my beliefs. I have always been very zealous for the things I believe in but in my 40...

Looking for the formula of being forever youthful? No need to look any further, just take into consideration the third commandment from God Almighty! I think that our Creator knew that if we didn't give ourselves one day a week to do nothing, or to rest, we would burnout and become completely unproductive in our lives. For our Jewish friends and family, that rest is the Sabbat or Sabbath, and for our Christian friends that day falls on Saturday night to Sunday morning. You might be no religion at all but the principle applies all the same. We are told in the bible to keep the Sabbath Day holy, it wasn't just a suggestion but a command. The Bible teaches us that God rested on the seventh day, for Him it was Saturday. It wasn't just that God got tired, he was setting up the order of the universe, and he commanded that all humanity find rest on that day. When the Christian church came along, the only reason why they changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday was because in Ch...

It was a cold day on the streets of Toronto, and it was in the early hours of the morning when a homeless man starving to death was about to give up on life. He thought to himself, if I don't get a cup of cold water or a meal I will surely die today. As he was thinking these words he saw a well dressed man approaching him, walking right to where he was laying on the ground, on the street. This man looked like a business man, a man of money and character. The homeless man sat up and looked the man in eyes, he could see there was a compassionate look and then the man's character changed. The business man started yelling at the homeless man before he could ask him for anything. He said, "I have had it up to here with you beggars! You take up valuable room on our streets, you are an eye sore! Why don't you get a life!" Then the business man walked away, leaving the homeless man feeling even more defeated than he was. The homeless man picked up his blanket he was lying...

Religion is making a come back, but with so many religions out there you might be confused as to which religion to choose. When I was 21 I became a born again Christian. If you were to ask me to explain what that was back then, I would have had a very hard time explaining the theology behind it. After many years studying the bible, I believe I have a real theological answer for some of you who might be wondering what the term "born again" means in Christian theology, so I will use this blog entry to the best of my ability to explain to you what this term means, and what it implies. The term born again is used in some modern English translations of the bible in the new testament in the gospels, one gospel is the gospel of John; (John 3:3 ESV) Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again b he cannot see the kingdom of God.” In this verse Jesus is telling a religious ruler of the Jews, that one must be Born Again. An other way to say it is that one ...

When we find ourselves locked in a cycle of unforgiveness, hating other people for perceived things that they may or may not have done, we can get depressed pretty quickly. When we want things in our lives a certain way and people are not cooperating, we can get depressed. When we start to grow old and nothing in our lives seems to be changing, we haven't met that special someone, and other people are pressuring us or pressing their will, their agenda into our hearts and lives, we just want to be loved. It is not truly a diagnosable thing, but the syndrome to turn in on your self, and instead of filling your mind with good things, you get paralysed with the thought that you "just want to be loved!" You feel your rights are slipping from you and if you don't act fast you will lose that person you really love. Maybe the other person wants it this way? To get sucked into a relationship because your parents want you to be with that person, especially as an adult is really...

God is a transcendent being. He is the first cause of all Creation. He existed in a transcendental state before the creation of time. When you think of the word transcendent it is hard to put a definition in your mind about what that actually means. To be transcendent as I am going to use the word to describe God, means to be above, literally above human perception. We cannot feel God with our senses, however there are many sensations that we attribute to God falsely. In order to fully know God our senses have to be trained, but to really know God I postulate we must know Him with our minds. The reason alone cannot fully grasp to the transcendent reality of God, and faith leads us to belief but belief in itself doesn't guarantee that one will experience God or Heaven. Because God is transcendent the question we must ask is how do we transcend our own reality to find Him? In the first book of Romans in the Bible it talks about those who supress the truth in unrighteousness. W...

You have heard it said about some people, they have lost touch with reality? This may be true for those on whom we must have compassion as they might be suffering from mental psychosis or distress. But the nature of reality cannot be properly diagnosed without a sense of your own human soul. When we are in distress our view and contemplative reality of the existence of our souls becomes diluted. We no longer fear heaven or hell, and the thoughts we contemplate in our minds are mindless! But this can be good because part of being in touch with the nature of reality is to let go. We are never to let go of our perceptions of our souls, for our souls belong to God, and to deny the reality of the soul, is to deny the nature of reality. The soul doesn't determine reality, the enlightened soul or the soul that communes with the absolute is the souls that can say; "I have seen God." The beatific vision of the omnipresent God must be desired in this life if after you die, you desi...